Awards Criteria

AMIA honors individuals’ and organization's professional achievements as well as contributions made to the Association and/or the archival community, through its Awards Program. Honorees are leaders who exemplify the values and practice the principles outlined in AMIA’s governance documents.  The Awards Committee accepts nominations from AMIA members for each award. 

The Ray Edmondson Advocacy Award recognizes an individual, an organization, or a project that promotes greater public awareness, appreciation, or support of media archives or those working to preserve and provide access to media archives. The Award is named for Ray Edmondson in recognition of his history of advocacy for cinema, archives and archivists around the world. 

Advocacy may take the form of advocacy, publicity, legislation, or a similar action that supports archival work or raises public consciousness of the importance of archival work. Advocacy should have impact at the regional level or beyond.

Nominees must be AMIA members.

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* 1. Your Information.  This information is not released, the committee will use it to contact you with any questions.

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* 2. Nominee Information.
Please be sure to include either email or phone number for the nominee.   For blank fields, please use NA.

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* 3. NOMINATION/NOMINEE ADVOCACY
The title or short description of the advocacy effort. 

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* 4. NOMINATION STATEMENT

This information will be used by the committee and will be used in the announcement of the Award. 

Please describe how the nominated individual(s), organization, or project has promoted greater public awareness, appreciation, or support of media archives or those working to preserve and provide access to media archives.

Nomination statements should not exceed 300 words.

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* 5. Other comments or information that might help the committee in considering this individual.

By submitting this Application, you are indicating that you have read the instructions for filing this award application, and that the information that has been provided is correct.

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